ACU/Sorrymate.com National and Clubmans 600 and 1000 3 Hour Endurance

There was a real depth of talent to the large grid gathered for Round 2 at Cadwell; Gary Johnson impressively stuck the Team Edge Racing (Nick Edgeley) Triumph on pole from Go Racing (Greg Allsop/Andy Carpenter) with Team Prime Factors Performance House Racing (Michael Brown/Stefan Cappella). Scratched from the entry were Rye Motors Racing (Theo & Louis Turner - Laurent) who had a torrid time on Friday testing.

For the race in bright but cool conditions Johnson made a terrible start and then went on to produce a stunning lap to ensure he headed the field chased by Prime Factors, Brands winners Linxcel (Mark Clark/Westley Crozier), Pit Stop, Go Racing, Silicone Engineering (Russ Mountford/Ben Stafford) and Sorrymate.com (Warren Verwey/Colin Norris). Go Racing had shot up to second spot after 30 minutes displacing Prime Factors, Linxcel, Pit Stop (Marc/Peter Dilks) and Silicone; ten minutes later T Watson Bikes (Rick Dickinson/Tom Stephens) went pop out on the trackside requiring rider and transponder to return to the pits by foot - other rider and bike bombed out with the team worrying if the rear tyre would hold out on the lone machine.

At the same time, Prime Factors took the lead just before Nick Edgeley fell at Barn and pitted to see Johnson turn out again before scheduled. Go Racing were promoted to second followed by Linxcel, Pit Stop, Silicone, Sorrymate and Team Edge were dumped into 7th.

After 60 minutes Prime Factors remained in charge ahead of Go Racing, Silicone, Pit Stop, Linxcel and Sorrymate with Edge still just outside the top six. A couple of separate fallers shortly afterwards; Norris was off at Charlies while leading his class, then back on and steaming back to the pits for teammate Verwey to resume the work and convert to 1 bike whilst Crozier, stepping in for regular Hudson Kennaugh who is away with BSB @ Brands, was off at the Old Hairpin and his BMW was un rideable so Wes was back, crossing at the start/finish line for Clark to get back out there, sharing one bike from there on.

Half way point showed that Prime Factors looked dangerously comfortable in the lead from Go Racing, Pit Stop, Silicone, Team Edge, Sorrymate, Seven Racing (Marc Mellon/Darren Wnukoski), Van Hire Racing (Les Liney/Adrian Hartog), Team Army 1 (Peter Brown/Dean Martin/Lawrence Williams) and Initiatec Racing (Arron Harte with the returning after 2/3 years John Blundell). Class leaders at this stage were; (Prime Factors, Team Edge, Seven Racing and Team Army 2 (Wayne Morgan/Richard Spencer-Fleet)

With an hour left on the clock a slender 34s separated the first two whilst third and fourth were within sight of one another a lap down on our heroes so it looked set up for a real ding dong between Prime Factors & Go Racing as well as Silicone & Pit Stop; positions were held for the next thirty minutes or so before we found ourselves with Go Racing first on the road by a third of a second with all pit stops over and all to play for. Even with only a quarter of an hour remaining Go Racing and Prime Factors were 1.4s apart and further back Pit Stop were still fending off Silicone.

Prime Factors turned up the wick with moments left to run to lunge past Go Racing to win the race and National 1000s by under 14 seconds, Silicone were a lap down and owned third by under a minute from Pit Stop who were relieved to reach the flag after being blighted with mechanical gremlins all weekend; Team Edge were a fantastic fifth overall to win National 600, Seven were sixth on the road and took the Clubman 1000 win in front of Army 1, White Van Men finished eight and to make up the baker's dozen Initiatec, Blundell delighted to blag some comeback silverware, Sorrymate, Clubman 600 winners Team Army 2 (that’s the Army taking Rookie Clubmans 600 and 1000 wins) were next to arrive home followed by fellow Rookies Tech Group Racing (Nick Ford/Matt Stevens) and Double H Racing (Marc Hoche/Simon Lacey). Illusion Race Paint (Larry Frost/Lee Rawlings) and NI Racing (Charley Powell/Scott Buckwell) finished ahead of Linxcel who finished in 16th. Others to complete race time were; P M & M Racing (Mark Bainbridge/Sonny Martin), G.U.N. Racing (Ed & Richard Wilson), T Watson Bikes, Team Army 3 (Darryl Hodder/Iain Rowatt/Lee Parker), Spark Endurance (Shelley Pike/Rob Knoyle), Mutts Nuts – Rookies (Richard Brown/Martin Thomas), Still Game Racing (James Butterworth/David Muir), Sorrymate.com Juniors(Fergus Delgarno/Phil Paxton/Karen Brown) and Endeavour Racing (Stuart Filton/Darren Gaffney).

Fastest Lap of the afternoon went to Go Racing with a 1m 33.82s

Monex Europe MotoGrande Powersport and Pre National 600

Race 1 - Wayne Humble was cool and calculated as he executed his first win of the weekend in the opening race, after slipstreaming Richard Charlton who was first out of the stocks, behind Humble were Dave Wood Jnr and Dale Thomas. By conclusion the fine starting Charlton crossed the line in fourth place ahead of Nick Clift and top Pre National stunner Ben Stafford who towed his classmates over the line in the form of brothers Jamie and Tom Boyce, Dan Diamond, Paul Slade and Jarvis Adams.

Race 2 - Humble made the best start as Richard Telford was gifted a jump start penalty, we saw Wayne stretch his lead over fellow northerner Charlton with Wood safely tucked up in third when we lost Slade at Gooseneck early doors, after which Thomas nailed fourth over Pre National man Stafford getting the better of Clift who finished before the next Pre National men; Jamie and Tom Boyce who hussled their identical Suzukis over the line from Diamond and Luke Martin.

Race 3 - Following a tumble from Humble in the morning he and Charlton slogged it out again, Clift slotted into third ahead of Wood who had bogged at the start and had a lot of ground to make up as our leading duo still looked as if they were joined at the hip. Humble made a break but still wasn't bullet proof as Charlton chased, Pre Nat Jamie Boyce deserved a massive pat on the back as he worked hard to maintain third ahead of Wood, Thomas, Clift and Stafford.

Race 4 - Final race of the weekend and the sun was shining nicely, Humble complaining of wrist pain before the start which was a Charlton/Humble/ J Boyce effort - Humble got past Charlton on the opening lap, Wood was seventh early on before a gap with the pack following. Humble held a steady gap over Charlton whilst Stafford grabbed third at the bottom of the Mountain; towards the end of the race Diamond and Tom Boyce were enjoying a real ding dong scrapping over sixth before back markers entered the equation and could have played their part but Humble took advantage and made it a 3s gap from Charlton, Pre Nat Stafford was third in front of J Boyce, Wood, T Boyce, Diamond, Sheriff, James and Adams

Linxcek MotoGrande PowerBike and Pre National 1000

Race 1 - From an impressive front row of Michael Neeves, Lee Wilson and Greg Allsop the scorecard looked good, in the opening race- we lost endurance runner Peter Dilks on cold tyres at the Gooseneck, very much an occupational hazard over this chilly April weekend. Brands winner Steve Neate, who raced a Harris classic endurance bike at Paul Ricard the previous week also exited stage left doing severe damage to his R1. Wilson led for the early part of the first race establishing a lead of around three bike lengths before slipping into the clutches of Neeves who won by 0.18s allowing Allsop to hold onto third from Russ Mountford, Wes Crozier, Ryan Gibson before a sizeable gap from top Pre National winner Forest Dunn, Michael Vincent, Dan Brady and Richard Dilks made up the top ten.

Race 2 - With the clock going towards the circuit curfew the big bangers took to the grid for the second time on Saturday; many thought it could be a Neeves benefit but at the change of lights Wilson grabbed the limelight ahead of the MCN rider with Kingsley Ruddy hanging on in handy third before being deposed by Gibson. Neeves regained his race face in the second half of the six lapper and started harrying the leader; Ruddy was coming back at Gibson but when it mattered as Wilson and Neeves became a four wheeler prior to Lee Willy Wilson edging it to win of four seconds. Busy man Ruddy had to settle for fourth behind Gibson, there were several fallers including former endurance rider R Dilks and Dan Brady. Forest Dunn was top dog in the Pre Nationals again with an impressive fifth on the road holding a massive 24s over next in class Vincent then Hogarth, Christian Holt, Colin White and Jack Yorke and Graham Hornby who all crossed the line covered by a second and a half.

Race 3 - Just what we needed after Sunday lunch; Wilson and Neeves headed the field and within a couple of laps had pulled out a start/finish straight lead over Mountford, Dilks, Gibson and Ruddy on his Modern Classic. This was the status quo as the leading two as Ruddy exerted more pressure on the group looking for a podium place; as back markers were encountered Ruddy continued to charge as Wilson started stretching his lead over Neeves. Mountford kept his nose clean for third place from the hard charging Ruddy who put behind him Gibson, Hornby, Andy Fenton and Dunn posting another class win - Brady and Jonathon Panter bought up the rear

Race 4 - Neeves got the best start but Wilson wasn't going to let it rest and would 'on a mission’ Ruddy get himself on the podium again this weekend? Wilson was through to P1 with Neeves, Ruddy, Mountford and Dunn all pushing. Wilson continued to pull away from Neeves using back markers wisely and Ruddy was unable wrestle his way further up but was chuffed with third, Mountford maintained fourth from Pre Nat Dunn and the rest of the dozen comprised of Gibson, Brady, Fenton, Vincent, Panter, Hogarth and Hornby

Protyre Motorsport Modern Classic Superbike, EVO and Formula 1 with Fuchs Silkolene

Race 1 - Pole belonged to Kingsley Ruddy who rocketed into a 4 second lead by the opening lap, managing to increase the advantage throughout; behind the Nottingham lad was a close knit group of Laurie Sands, Mark Ess and Steve Blackwell before Adrian Beevor lost the plot at Gooseneck. Sands retired with loose bodywork meaning Ruddy was well gone from Yamaha OW10 mounted Ess, Blackwell, Andy Challis, Gerrard Fallon and Robert Eagling. Class winners were; Ruddy F1, Ess Superbike and EVO riding Blackwell

Race 2 - It was local man Sands who got away best but it didn't take too long before Ruddy was back in charge on his Suzuki 1000 in a field dominated by GSXRs or ZX7Rs - Blackwell looked comfortable in a solid third place ahead of Fallon then a gap over Owen Richardson, Challis on his Aprilia, Raymond Stagg, Beevor, Andy O’Sullivan and Craig Robertson, those dominating classes were F1 – Ruddy, EVO – Blackwell and Superbikes - Richardson

Race 3 - Would the Ruddy Roadshow continue to steam roll the Modern Classics on the dry track? It was Ess who took off first as we lost Beevor on the opening lap. Lap two and Ruddy occupied his usual position with Ess relegated to second and now receiving unwanted attention from a hard pressing Blackwell, Sands was next up with some daylight over Fallon, Challis, Stagg and Richardson. We witnessed some great riding from rookie Craig Robertson on his fathers hastily overnight built stock ZX7R after an engine failure in qualifying. Robertson steered the ZX7R up from the depths up to ninth after a paint swapping battle with Richardson with both recovering from poor starts. Class winners were highlighted by Ruddy, Ess and Blackwell

Race 4 - Predictably Ruddy did not mess about and soon gapped Ess, Blackwell, Sands, Challis, Fallon, Stagg, Richardson, Robertson, Smith et al. As the track began to get warmer Ruddy's lead stretched and we has Ess being bothered by Blackwell, Sands was running his own race and we had to wait a while for the booming Aprilia of Challis over the rest. For Ruddy, class and race win with Ess and Blackwell celebrating their successes in respective classes

Protyre Motorsport Modern Classic Supersport Pre-I, EVO and SF with Fuchs Silkolene

Race 1 - After an aborted opening race after a brace of riders went AWOL at Gooseneck it was a great little battle for Messers Grant Wagstaff, Adam Reeve and Mark Dicken. Reeve was on a mission as he slipped into P1 dragging Dicken into second place and pushing Wag down to third, it was no way near a whitewash as all three were covered by 2.5 seconds. Outside the top three Pre-i finishers we had Gaz Evans bring his EVO home in fourth, there was a gap before the next pack fell over the line; Sam Osbourne, Alex Desmond, David Stiff, John Bolsover, Justin Stephenson and Rick Saville. Neil Mason was top Lightweight finishing a healthy 16th on the road

Race 2 - After a bit of a frustrating start to his 2014 campaign Wag showed his full potential as he dominated the race in varied track conditions, in the early stages he was chased by Reeve, 'good in the wet' Adam Sheriff and Brands Man of the Meeting Osbourne and Evans was fifth before we lost him plus Lightweight Allan Clark. Winning Pre-I Wagstaff had built up a gap before class mate Reeve put a bit more pressure on the Bedford man; at the end these two had opened up some space over third place Dicken and Osbourne with another piece of blue sky before we saw top SF man Sheriff, leading EVO rider was Justin Ganley who finished 11th on the road, Mason again nailed the L/W class

Race 3 - Osboune elbowed Wagstaff to take the lead immediately with some of the riders opting for wets despite a dry track, Dicken slotted into second with Evans in a nearby fourth, Sheriff in fifth. Dicken got to the front on the second lap as he and Osbourne set about making some space, loosing Evans at the Old Hairpin. Running at the front were; Dicken from Wag with Reeve breathing down his neck but by the Mountain on the same lap Wag passed Dicken for the lead on the outside taking Reeve with him. Wagstaff then had Osbourne showing him unwanted attentions whilst Dicken dropped to fourth with Reeve zooming into second. Sheriff was the leading SF rider finishing in a strong 5th ahead of Desmond, Stiff, Bolsover, Owen and Dunn, Mason was top Lightweight

Race 4 - Wagstaff crashed at the gooseneck so it was Reeve's time to shine, taking an early lead from Dicken, Osbourne, Evans, Sheriff, Owen, Desmond and Stiff, the battle on the roads to keep on was Evans chasing down Osbourne, eventually succeeding to do so, we lost Reeve around half distance when his bike dropped a valve and Osbourne was slowed with electrical problems and down into third; a delighted Dicken took over the mantle to win the race and Pre-i class with Gaz coming second and taking the EVO class and Sheriff up for a fourth and a win SF, next six home were Owen, Stiff, Bolsover, Jon McNally, Stephenson and Saville and top Lightweight was Simon Willis on his 650.

Michelin Power Cup

Race 1 – The first start never really worked after a quarter of the grid fell off on the grass after an race start stall by a rider causing a skittle effect. At the re run it was all about Marcus Gearing who was unstoppable for the six lap duration crossing the line almost 20 seconds ahead of Graham Hornby on his Blade less than a quarter of a second to the good over Jamal Mahmood. We had to go a further 6 seconds down the road before we found a couple of 1000 Rookies Byron Thomas and Chris Dickinson whilst next up was a brilliant effort by top Rookie 600; Gavin Bartlett, completing the top ten Craig Kennelly, Anthony Healey, Stuart Dawson and Dan MacLean

Race 2 - It was again Gearing on his 600 who led on the road from the change of lights with Mahmood, Bryn Thomas and Hornby in his wake, Mahmood began to mount an attack on the leader as part of a quartet of riders - Gearing, Mahmood, Hornby and Chris Dickinson, Thomas fell at Barn. Towards the end of the race Gearing lost the lead for a moment seeing Hornby lead the pack but when it mattered the 600 Suzuki rider was first on the road and in class dropping Hornby down to second with Mahmood a tad away but safe from the clutches of Dickinson. Anthony Healey was fifth over first Rookie 600 man Bartlett, more Newcomers were Kennelly, Marc Ironside, Chris Parish and Lewis Carron

Race 3 - Gearing got the hole shot from an on form Hornby whilst Mahmood hung on looking to catch the leading two. There was a bit of a gap before we saw Dickinson, Bartlett and Kennelly - we lost the luckless Mahmood and Dickinson before the end of lap 3 allowing Gearing to get away further and giving Hornby a substantial comfort zone before we saw Kennelly, Bartlett then a gap over a whole gaggle of guys; Ironside, Simon Wilding, Chris Parish, Stuart Dawson and Lewis Carron. Gearing gave a master class in showing that a well ridden 600 can outrun the thousands around Cadwell

Race 3 - The Gearing winning machine was at it again, within a few laps establishing a well decent gap over Hornby who had a similar bit of space over Mahmood, orange jacketed Dickinson tried to keep up with Jamal but fell back to slip into the clutches of top rookie Ironside and Kennelly, followed home by Dickinson, Carron, Bartlett, Dawson, Wilding and Parish.

Ducati Desmo Due with Ducati Insurance

Race 1 - The opening Ducati race will show a win for Dallas Hornblow in a most convincing lights to flag effort over 8 laps, keeping at bay firstly Matt Lawson then Chris Clarke, James Gerrard, Steve Newman, Phil Wilcock then Class B hero Andrew Claridge. The rest of the top six in the Bs were; Andrew Blomfield, Peter Pritchard, Scott Wilson, Miles Watson-Cort and Jim Brian. Riding Mark Roxborough's 620 was former Supersport and Superstock rider John Blundell who was back in the Hottrax paddock after four years of getting up to mischief - coming 11th in Class A was probably one of the hardest races he has endured.

Race 2 - With a damp track it wasn't long before Wilcock took to the front being chased by Lawson, very soon we lost Steve Campling as a faller at Charlie's. By half distance there was a tight group at the front who dropped off the rest of the pack; still Wilcock, Lawson, top Class B Claridge and Jim Brian - Lawson had other ideas and blasted past to build up a safety margin over the remaining laps, the next three still remained bunched until the flag. Lawson won by 10 seconds and a small blanket covered Wilcock, Brian who poached third and Class B class act; Claridge - we had to wait a while before seeing Daravulla, Kevin Ellis before another tight pack comprising of Steve Newman, Blomfield, Tim Sayers and Mark Hamilton

Race 3 - With Clarke back on the grid it was he who led from the word go and held his lead throughout, Hornblow gave chase but was unable to dint the leader's progress but was unable to stay out of the grasp of Gerrard who worked hard to get past Wilcock, Lawson and top Class B Andrew Claridge, Blomfield, Brian, Daravulla, Sayers, Wilson, Peter Pritchard and Miles Watson-Cort,